The solvent-based daytime blue glow paint is brighter than typical glow in the dark paint with longer duration. Its brilliant green glow is a perfect complement to standard bluish glow products. It glows for about an hour. Please note that the daytime blue glow paint appears blue in daylight, while it glows green in darkness.

Photoluminescent materials absorb light energy as electrons in their atoms are boosted to high energy levels by absorbing individual light quanta, or photons. Instead of dropping back to where they originally came from, though, these excited electrons transfer to a nearby, intermediate energy level and keep much of the photon energy. Dropping back from this intermediate state, called a metastable state, to ground level is slow going. As these metastable electrons gradually drop back to ground level, they release the rest of their energy as the visible glow we see. Colored glow paints, such as the orange and yellow, use fluorescent dyes in the paint mixture to alter the glow color from the standard blue or green.